Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Exactly! I'm trying to decide if I want to mount the IR sensor on some
sort of gimble and vary the sensor attitude to control the aircraft
attitude, or do I just want to hard mount the sensor and try and steer
with the rudder while the copilot fights to keep the wings
Good afternoon,
I've been 'away' for a while - no internet connection for two months, didn't
really miss it. I now have ~5000 emails to catch up with, luckily most of
those are mailing list related.
I'm going to buy a laptop very soon (pay day approaches). I wondered if
anyone had a Rock
David Megginson wrote:
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Exactly! I'm trying to decide if I want to mount the IR sensor on
some sort of gimble and vary the sensor attitude to control the
aircraft attitude, or do I just want to hard mount the sensor and try
and steer with the rudder while the copilot
Chris Horler wrote:
Good afternoon,
I've been 'away' for a while - no internet connection for two months, didn't
really miss it. I now have ~5000 emails to catch up with, luckily most of
those are mailing list related.
I'm going to buy a laptop very soon (pay day approaches). I wondered if
I'm going to buy a laptop very soon (pay day approaches). I wondered if
anyone had a Rock Pegasus Ti with a 1.7GHz Pentium -M ( new core type) and
1GB of memory and a 7200rpm HDD. This is what I'm considering buying at
the moment.
snip
I've never bought a loptop for myself, but when I
Curtis L. Olson writes:
Not quite. The co-pilot does one thing (but one thing well from what I
read). It keeps itself level with the horizon. That's it. It has no
gyros. It fits inline between your receiver and your servos. So as I
understand it, it will only kick in when you have
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Curtis L. Olson wrote:
The question is, with an auto-pilot forcing the wings level, how
effective would rudder only steering be. I'm guessing not all that
effective, but at R/C scales is it effective enough to control heading
and self navigate?
It would give you a very rough, slightly slipping
David Megginson wrote:
It would give you a very rough, slightly slipping turn, I'd think.
There'd be a risk of a snap roll (and possible spin) at slower speeds,
if you got to the point that one of the wings stalled.
That should have been a skidding turn.
All the best,
David
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Boris Koenig wrote:
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Boris,
First of all, the documentation for Nasal can be found here:
http://www.plausible.org/nasal/flightgear.html
Secondly, I
Chris Horler wrote:
I'm going to buy a laptop very soon (pay day approaches).
You specifically need to decide whether weight is a factor for you:
(a) a desk top replacement, will weigh about 8 lb ... a luggable
(b) a lightweight powersaver, will weigh about 4 lb ... no gaming
I'm using an
I can see several business ideas related to this along the lines of
something that could be fun to develop but which also has a variety of
commercial possibilities.
Does anyone have any examples of how commercial collaborations with open
source projects actually work in practical terms ?
For
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:37:45 -0700 (PDT), Alex wrote in message
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You may have trouble buying a battery ... without a laptop included;
that's what happened to me. The limit on the number of computers that
the manufacturer could sell was the number of batteries available.
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I can see several business ideas related to this along the lines of
something that could be fun to develop but which also has a variety of
commercial possibilities.
Does anyone have any examples of how commercial
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Google search for pid control gives some useful tutorials on what pid
is.
doh... yes I must have overlooked them before ;-) but actually I
was looking at a more in-depth description. On my way I came across
over these books which I'm going to get from the library: (name
On July 10, 2004 08:25 pm, Norman Vine wrote:
Ampere K. Hardraade writes:
Anyway we can get the plib group to look into their method for rendering?
Have at it !
How do I reach them?
Note PLib's scenegraph is SSG Simple Scene Graph
Since this model is anything but simple IMO it doesn't
The plib project homepage is at
http://plib.sf.net
and the main plib developers mailinglist is here:
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Cheers,
Durk
On Monday 12 July 2004 04:35, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
On July 10, 2004 08:25 pm, Norman Vine wrote:
Ampere K. Hardraade writes:
Anyway we can get the
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